Tag: Instagram

  • Pokémon Go: The Game That Proves Augmented Reality is Here to Stay

    By now I’m sure you’re aware of Pokémon Go, the latest phenomenon that has been cluttering your Facebook, Twitter, or whatever other form of social media you have. On the off chance that you’re one of the people who is not aware of this game, here is a quick breakdown. Pokémon Go is a smartphone…

  • Smart Phones, Smart Teens – App Downloads Rising Along with Awareness of Privacy Concerns

    Smart Phones, Smart Teens – App Downloads Rising Along with Awareness of Privacy Concerns

    I Kissed a Girl! That was easy. I just put together a few pictures and I have the answer to my latest trivia challenge on 4 Pics 1 Song, the number 1 downloaded free app in the App Store. The admirable runner up is Amateur Surgeon. Yes, it’s exactly like it sounds, and more –…

  • Tumblr, Snapchat and an Online Exodus [TEENS]

    Tumblr, Snapchat and an Online Exodus [TEENS]

    Is Facebook losing its hold on the younger generations? Like the OJ verdict and the Clinton-Lewinski scandal, I’ll never forget where I was the first time my mom friend-requested me on Facebook. There was bellyaching, groaning, and any number of other visceral reactions to the same moment in time. We all experienced it – our…

  • Tech Savvy Researcher Feature: The “Second Screen” and the expansion of mobile networking

    “OMG Walking Dead!” Yes, that was the most common post in my Facebook Newsfeed during the last airing of the hit AMC show. The hit show that I’ve never watched. But maybe now I will – a 500-friend recommendation is not too shabby. But the focus in a report recently put out by Nielsen on…

  • Tech Savvy Researcher Feature: A Web All Our Own

    Tech Savvy Researcher Feature: A Web All Our Own

    Instagram and Pinterest Assist in Curating our Digital Selves “We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re going to live on the internet!” proclaims an overly enthusiastic, proficiently drugged-up Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker in the zeitgeist mega-production The Social Network. I found the sentiment quite poignant, didn’t you? But we…